Friedman - W Please Phone Home

The U.S. operation in Iraq is hanging by a thread. If it has any hope of surviving this Hobbesian moment, we need three conversations to happen fast: George Bush needs to talk to his father, the Arab leaders need to talk to their sons — and daughters — and we need to talk to the Iraqi Governing Council.

If it is America alone against the Iraqi street, we lose. If it is the world against the Iraqi street, we have a chance.

el - My original impression of Friedman as naive, grandiose, jingoistic and deluded has not changed - a good heart and a cracked skull. It was blindingly obvious that the gang of idiots running this administration would make Iraq a total FUBAR